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| Hedge Fund of Funds Investing Hardcover 288 pages Publisher: Bloomberg Press ISBN: 1576601242 |
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New Strategies for the Hedge Fund Marketplace Joseph G. Nicholas |
| Hedge funds have rightly gained the attention of private
and institutional investors in recent years, proving themselves
as useful portfolio diversifiers and preservers of wealth while
greatly dispelling their reputation as an "unsafe" investment.
Yet investors attempting to navigate in the field of hedge funds face significant challenges: the large number of funds, the diversity of strategies used the range of financial instruments -traded, and the various formats for investing. Pooling multiple hedge funds together into one vehicle, the fund of funds provides a ready solution, combining professional management expertise with asset allocation. In this book the first of its kind industry expert Joseph Nicholas shows investors how these funds operate, the benefits and risks, and the criteria and due diligence to utilize when selecting funds. Nicholas provides an in-depth analysis of historical fund performance and offers unique insight into the industry and trends that may affect its evolution. Clear, insightful, and illustrated with numerous charts and graphs, Hedge Fund of Funds Investing is an essential resource for serious investors. |
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| Active Investing Paperback
262 pages |
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Take Charge of Your Portfolio in Today's Unpredictable Markets
Peter Sander |
| Active Investing: Take Charge of Your Portfolio in Today's Unpredictable Markets ... nest egg? Worried about the rapidly changing global economy? In today’s investing, there are no more sure things. So how do you invest in such a ... marketplace, anyway? To be a successful investor, you must stay involved. Active Investing is a strategy for managing your investments without having to spend the whole day watching the markets. Active ... | ||
| The Smart Investor's Survival Guide
Paperback 352 pages Publisher: Currency ISBN: 0385504020 |
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The Nine Laws of Successful Investing in a Volatile Market Charles Carlson, Charles B. Carlson |
| The economic recession of the past year, followed
by the tragedy of September 11, sent a ripple of panic through investors
in 2001. The market shed trillions of dollars in wealth, and hundreds
of thousands of individual investors suffered substantial financial
losses. The volatility we experienced last year was more than a
fluke, argues investment expert Charles B. Carlson. With the ongoing
changes in the economy, including changes in corporate reporting
laws, instant availability of financial information, and the ability
to buy and sell stocks with the touch of a keystroke, volatility
is here to stay. But volatility isn’t necessarily a bad thing. In fact, Carlson argues, if you know how to weather today stormy markets, investing in them can be very profitable. In The Smart Investor’s Survival Guide, Carlson shows investors how to make volatility work to their advantage. First, he argues, it is critical that investors match their investment style growth, value, buy and hold to the kinds of stocks they pick. For long-term investors, Carlson recommends that a portion of their portfolio be invested in what he calls the calm eye of the storm, “easy hold” stocks that have consistent, steady growth, and very low volatility. Even in the terrible market downturn of 2000, when the Nasdaq lost 39 percent of its value and stocks like Lucent and Cisco saw their share price drop by 80 percent or more, a number of investmentsectors actually gained in value. The Dow Jones index, minus its technology stocks, broke even. In other words, even in the worst markets, not every stock or sector goes down. |
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| The Investment Think Tank Hardcover 432 pages Publisher: Bloomberg Press ISBN: 157660165X |
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Theory, Strategy, and Practice for Advisers Harold R. Evensky (Editor), Deena B. Katz (Editor) |
| Providing financial advice is a demanding job, requiring a finger on the pulse of the markets, economy, and the latest industry developments and investment products. Finding the best solutions to satisfy clients' needs is contingent upon staying current with the newest thinking. Now Harold Evensky and Deena B. Katz, two of the nation’s best-known and most respected financial planners, have brought together twenty top thinkers on the topic of managing and investing other people’s money. The Investment Think Tank brings together the most relevant ideas from the originators into one authoritative reference for investment advisers. Each contributor delivers their latest ideas in the areas of portfolios, client issues, investments, strategy, practice, and theory. These gurus have influenced countless advisers through the years, and planners will jump at the chance to listen in on what The Investment Think Tank has to say. | ||
| How to Read the Financial Pages Paperback 430 pages Publisher: Random House Business Books ISBN: 0712662596 |
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Stripping away the mystique from the world of investment and finance Michael Brett |
| Stripping away the mystique from the world of investment and finance, How to Read the Financial Pages is a layman's guide to reading and understanding the financial press and the markets and events it covers. Assuming no financial knowledge, Michael Brett provides a valuable explanation of the workings of the financial world - from money markets to commodity markets, investment ratios to takeover bids. With an extensive glossary of financial terms, this book will help you through the financial columns to a better understanding of the language of markets and money. For ten years How to Read the Financial Pages has been an outstanding first-choice buy for everyone who wants a thorough - but friendly - grounding in finance and investment. What are stock markets, currency markets, commodities markets? How do they operate? What are derivatives? Could they cause the financial system to crash? What is meant by insider dealing? Why is it illegal? Who are the main players in the world of money? What do stock brokers, market makers, merchant bankers and underwriters actually do? How has the Internet affected private investors? What are the new opportunities? | ||
| How the Stock Market Works Paperback 208 pages Publisher: Kogan Page ISBN: 0749441909 |
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A Beginner's Guide to Investment Michael Becket |
| The stock exchange is increasingly dispersing and multiplying. An investor can deal on the Nasdaq in New York, or the Frankfurt stock exchange, or just go to an on-line broker or intermediary. While all this makes it easier and cheaper for an individual to trade, it becomes difficult to see where the market is, and probably less easy to trade successfully. The investor has to be even more carefully armoured and protected by knowledge. This fully revised new edition will tell investors what is being traded and how, who does what with which and to whom, and how to evaluate both the shares and the proponents' claims. In his acclaimed lucid style, Michael Beckett cuts through the investment hype to answer such questions as: What are shares?; What are gilts?; What are futures and options?; What about overseas shares?; Where and how can you buy shares?; What do the newspaper financial pages mean?; How do you pick a share to buy?; Whose advice can you trust?; When do you sell a share?; What is the point of owning shares? | ||
| Unconventional Success
Hardcover: 416 pages |
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A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment David F. Swensen |
| wensen, CIO of Yale University and the author of Pioneering Portfolio Management, reveals why the mutual fund industry as a whole does a disservice to the individual investor. Soft money, 12b-1 fees, overtrading, market timing, and other management practices lower performance and virtually guarantee that most mutual fund returns will fall short of their benchmark, such as the S&P 500. Furthermore, for-profit mutual fund companies have a fiduciary obligation to their stockholders, not to their investors, and this relationship "inevitably resolves in favor of the bottom line." Swensen is also highly critical of the Morningstar rating system, which only causes investors to chase hot performing funds and managers. He advises considering alternatives to the for-profit mutual fund industry, including Exchange Traded Funds and not-for-profit financial institutions such as Vanguard and TIAA-CREF. He highly recommends that as an individual, you should play a more active role in your financial future. This includes periodic portfolio evaluation and rebalancing, to ensure that your asset allocation remains diversified and suits your investment time line. | ||
| Fund Your Future Paperback
224 pages |
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Winning Strategies for Managing Your Mutual Funds and 401(k) Julie Stav, Lisa Rojany Buccieri |
| Fund Your Future was written for people who want to have access to the benefits of investing but don't want to take big risks or feel compelled to readjust their investments every day. Stav begins by guiding readers through the basics (coming to terms with your financial picture, setting goals, determining your needs) and then focuses on two potential vehicles -- mutual funds and company-sponsored 401(k) plans. Her advice is straightforward, accessible, and sure to be appreciated by entry-level investors who need to master the basics. One added bonus of the book is that Stav also talks readers through the process of using the Internet to get reliable information. | ||
| A Handbook of Human Resource Management
Practice Paperback: 979 pages Publisher: Kogan Page; 9th edition ISBN: 0749441054 |
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Fully updated to reflect: currnet thinking, practice and research Michael Armstrong |
| This book is ideal for professional trainers and will
provide core information needed by all students. This edition has
been fully updated and revised and includes new chapters on: . Design,
development and application of e-learning; . Knowledge management
and transfer; . Human and intellectual capital Michael Armstrong is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) and an internationally respected writer on management topics. His publications for Kogan Page include Performance Management , Human Resource Management: Strategy and Action and How to be a Better Manager... |
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Human Resource Development: (Learning & Training For Individuals & Organizations) Paperback: 564 pages |
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Learning & Training For Individuals & Organizations John P. Wilson (Editor) |
The definitive guide to human resource development,
this book is ideal for professional trainers and will provide core
information needed by all students This edition has been fully updated
and revised and includes new chapters on:
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| Handbook of Logistics and Distribution
Management (Second Edition) Paperback: 512 pages Publisher: Kogan Page; 2nd edition ISBN: 0749433655 |
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Alan Rushton, John Oxley, Phil Croucher |
| Richly illustrated throughout with diagrams and photographs, this new edition includes new chapters on areas previously not covered such as: Intermodal Transport, Benchmarking, Environmental Matters and Vehicle and Depot Security... | ||
| Logistics and Retail Management:
(Insights into Current Practice and Trends from Leading Experts) Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Kogan Page; 2nd edition ISBN: 0749440910 |
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Insights into Current Practice and Trends from Leading Experts John Fernie (Editor), Leigh Sparks (Editor) |
| This new volume brings together well-known academics and practitioners to share their research, ideas and experience of retail logistics in the 1990s. Practitioner examples and research syntheses are used to chart this decade of development, not least of which includes the internationalization of retailing, which British retailers have been notoriously slow to pick up on when compared with their European counterparts.Logistics and Retail Management is essential reading for both retail and logistics managers, academics, students and consultants & proves that logistics excellence provides a fundamental competitive advantage... | ||
It takes a CEO ISBN: 0743269858 |
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Does the corporate culture have to be driven by greed?
Or can you do good and still make good in the big business world? Leo Hindery |
| Should CEOs act as moral compasses for their companies?
Leo Hindery thinks they should. If every CEO did so, then Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and Tyco would not have become poster children for greed. They would not have become corporate embarrassments-living illustrations of all that can go wrong in the corner office... |
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| Customer Service Workbook Paperback: 223 pages Publisher: Kogan Page; Bk&CD-Rom edition ISBN: 0749437898 |
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(Sunday Times Business Enterprise Series) Neville Lake, Kristin Hickey, Institute of Directors (Corporate Author) |
| Practical guide to developing a customer service strategy. Packed with advice, worksheets, exercises, tools and proven techniques. Covers 5 key areas: understanding customers;developing a service strategy;delivering service through people;delivering service through processes; and measuring and follow up. | ||
| Flying on One Engine Hardcover: 264 pages Publisher: Bloomberg Press ISBN: 1576601765 |
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The Bloomberg Book of Master Market Economists Thomas R. Keene (Editor) |
| Flying on One Engine certainly stretched my conception of economics as a porthole and a microscope onto the world. I had the chance to meet Tom Keene this past summer while working at Bloomberg LP, where he hosts the daily radio show "Bloomberg on the Economy." In a media giant devoted to stylized data and concise news reports, Mr. Keene fills the niche of the purveyor of primary, unedited knowledge. He interviews the real heads (not necessarily those who hold executive titles such as President or CEO) behind Wall Street's 500-pound gorillas. | ||
The Securitization Markets Handbook Hardcover: 352 pages |
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Structures and Dynamics of Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities Charles Austin Stone, Anne Zissu |
| Securitization experts Charles Stone and Anne Zissu provide a practical explanation of how securitization works and explain how future cash flows from various asset classes from credit card receipts and mortgage payments to movie royalties can be packaged into bond-like products and sold to investors. The discussion includes descriptions of all major classes of asset-backed securities and offers a practice-oriented commentary on trends in securitization and the value of asset- and mortgage-backed securities across industries. The Securitization Markets Handbook offers clear, comprehensive guidance to these complex markets. | ||
Making Sense of Change Management |
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A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools & Techniques of Organizational
Change Esther Cameron, Mike Green |
| This book about making Change Easier.It is aimed at anyone who wants to understand why change happens, how it happens and what needs to be done to make change a welcome rather thandreaded concept. However this book is not a 'one size fits all' simplistic panacea to all change, whatever the circumstances. Insteadit offersconsidered insights into the many frameworks, models and ays of approcaching change and helps the reader to apply the right approach to each unique situation. | ||
Brand Royalty Hardcover 304 pages |
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How the World's Top 100 Brands Thrive and Survive Matt Haig |
| Brand success = business success. A simple equation, but as no two brands are the same, identifying what those winning qualities are is not easy. And given that the whole point of branding is to create a distinct identity, it’s absurd to look for a single magic formula. The result is the most comprehensive, entertaining and illuminating collection of brand success stories ever told. From Adidas to Zippo, Beckham to Wrigley, Coca-Cola to Volkswagen, we’re guided through a gallery of the world’s best-known names and given a rare insight into the secrets of their success and what makes each absolutely unique. |
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| Brand Sense Hardcover 256 pages Publisher: Kogan Page ISBN: 0749443715 |
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How to Build Powerful Brands Through Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight
and Sound Martin Lindstrom |
| Based on the largest study ever conducted on how our
five senses affect the creation of brands, BRAND Sense presents
Martin Lindstrom’s innovative six-step programme for bringing brand
building into the 21st century. The study, covering over a dozen
countries worldwide, was conducted exclusively for this book by
Millward Brown, one of the largest business research institutions
in the world. Drawing on countless examples of both product creation
and retail experience, Lindstrom shows how to establish a marketing
approach that appeals to all the senses, not simply sight and sound.
Research shows that a full 75 per cent of our emotions are in fact generated by what we smell, and the author explains how to capitalize on that insight. Included are innovative tools for evaluating a brand’s place on the sensory scale, analysing its future sensory potential, and enhancing its appeal to reach the broadest base of consumers. Lindstrom lists the top twenty brands for the future based on their sensory awareness. |
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| Global Brand Strategy Paperback 272 pages Publisher: Kogan Page ISBN: 074944469X |
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Unlocking Brand Potential Across Countries, Cultures and Markets
Sicco Van Gelder |
| The purpose of this book is to clarify for brand managers what they must consider when managing their brands across diverse cultures and markets throughout the world. Each brand has its own particular assets and vulnerabilities when it comes to extending across geographic and cultural borders. Brand managers can find themselves faced with a multitude of complex issues, not least language barriers. Global Brand Strategy is the first book to provide a rigorous analytical framework that can be used comparatively across markets to reveal how to extend the brand and realize its true value. Containing a wealth of analytical models, real-life examples and global case studies, Global Brand Strategy will provide fresh insights for managers and students alike. | ||
The Philosophy of Branding Hardcover: 176 pages |
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Great Philosophers Think Brands Thom Braun |
| Thom Braun takes us into the minds of some of the world’s greatest Western thinkers to find out what they might say about branding if they had been alive today. Filled with contemporary examples, pragmatic insights and summaries of each philosopher’s "top tips", this unique book will resonate with all marketing and branding professionals. | ||
Complete Idiot's Guide
To ISBN: 1592573983 |
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It requires a commitment to yourself not only to imagine the possibility
of making your dreams come true... by Shari L Just P.hd,. |
| The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Visualization
reveals success-setting strategies for manifesting your goals through
the power of imagination. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get: The five essential components of creative visualization: imagination, focus, belief, consciousness, and affirmation.Advice on how to make visualization a part of your daily routine and implement it in each of your Life Arenas: love, family, work, money, health, home, personal growth, spiri- tuality, leisure/rejuvenation, and creative self-expression... |
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